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Deception: Animals Do It, Robots Can Too

Monday, December 17, 2012

From the Trojan Horse to D-Day, deception has always played a role during wartime. In fact, there is an entire Army field manual on its use and value in the battlefield.

Robots May Destroy Human Civilization

Friday, December 14, 2012

Scientists and philosophers in the UK are studying the likelihood of robots taking over and destroying our world.

The Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study the dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and...

We Need Robot Laws

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

We need laws on Earth, we need laws in space, and some people think that, since robots will work directly with...

Future Soldiers May be Killer Robots

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Perhaps we could have killed Osama bin-Laden with a drone, but since he rarely left his compound, our soldiers had to go in and get him instead. In Whitley's new novel Hybrids, he writes about machine-men who are engineered to...

Robot Laws

Monday, August 10, 2009

If we use robots in the future, we have to make sure they behave. Scientists are now enmeshed in philosophical discussions about this.

When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of...

Wish We'd Thought of This

Thursday, June 3, 2004

How about never having to iron another shirt again? A German company has invented a heated, inflatable dummy that "irons" shirts for you. "This will be a complement to the lawn mowing and vacuum cleaning robots that already exist," says economist Jan Karlsson. Since most of us are still doing those chores ourselves, we don't expect to have our...

Robots Replace the Living

Friday, December 27, 2002

When a couple wants to test their ability to take care of a child before they have one, they usually get a pet. Now you can go a step further and for $80,000, you can get a childlike robot called AstroBoy. Sony is working on a robot that can interact with its "parents," expressing emotions with words, songs and body language. Or you can get a...

Ratbots

Friday, May 3, 2002

Rats controlled by implants in their brains could one day be used to search for landmines or the buried victims of earthquakes. Researchers have created 5 of these ?ratbots? and succeeded in steering them through an obstacle course by remote control. Dr. Sanjiv Talwar, of the State University of New York, says the ratbots can reach places...

Robots in Our Future (Is One of Them You?)

Monday, March 25, 2002

Surgeons have carried out an operation on cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick so that his nervous system can be wired up to a computer. He?s the world?s first cyborg -- part human and part machine.

Computer readings can be taken from the implant in his arm of electrical impulses coursing through his nerves. These signals encode...

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